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How can you know what you are chewing? What technically is "Gum Base"?

Surprisingly I bought a tree resin product a while back and was suprised to discover that I was supposed to chew the resin. It's nearly identical to gum. Especially the type of gum that breaks apart and crumbles nearly instantly after chewing a long time.

Hope that helps. What chemicals worry you specifically?

HUMECTANT (422) is Glycerol, or glycerin, and yeah, fairly safe to my understanding, one of the more safer vegetable or animal products. (I am no bio-chemist)

SORBITOL is similar as Glycerol, a sugar alcohol.

MANNITOL is another sugar alcohol.

FLAVOR could be anything.

Anyways, generally it looks safe, if you ask me.

If you wanted something more raw an natural, you could go with a tree resin, and chew that instead. It's surprising how similar, or how many (not all) store bought gum is basically the same in texture and chew as tree resin.